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Today's Topics:
1. DX Loggings - Ralph Perry - 1 July 2011 (Ralph Perry)
2. Glenn Hauser logs June 30-July 1, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Question on Grundig Radio (Hector (Luigi) Perez)
4. June 30-July 1 Logs (Brian Alexander)
5. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 05:02:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ralph Perry <ralphpe...@yahoo.com>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] DX Loggings - Ralph Perry - 1 July 2011
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MEXICO - 6009.95, Radio Mil back and the OA again blotting out this fqy as of
7/1. First noted weakly at 0940 tune-in with quick, clear ID by OM (burst out,
simply, with "Radio Mil !"). By 1025 recheck, was totally bombing in with pops
and t/cks, as strong as ever. Nice listening station, actually. The 6010.04
unid previously hrd, weakly, not noted, nor the usual heterodyne mess. Suspect
that one was indeed R. Inconfidencia, uncovered by Mil's temporary absence, as
suggested and IDed by Herk and Bob Wilkner. Thanks for the assist, gents!
(Perry, Illinois)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Very nice opening on 7/1 with host of 90 meter PNGs all
showing up around 1000+ in Chicagoland, and fading up to full levels by 1015+.
Bandscan showed 3385 Radio East New Britain (Rabaul) with OM nx in EE and Tok
Pidgin at 1004; 3365 R. Milne Baya, Alotau, with YL ancr and similar
programming; 3290 R. Central Boroko weaker than the others; 3205 R. West Sepik
(Sandaun) with fair signal, again OM in EE and Tok Pidgin. Also this same
date, noted all the 60 meter Brazilians also strong by 0915 -- nice conditions,
although usual horrendous summer static crashing, non-stop. Andes opening
never
transpired, tho traces of 4790 Chiclayo going AN, around 0930. (Perry, Illinois)
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Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois
Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit
Star
Roamer
Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408
Longwires (150' + 100'); Tuned Multi-Turn 20" Small Loop; Single-Turn Coax
Loop.
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:11:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 30-July 1, 2011
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** ALASKA. 11870, after good reception of KNLS June 29 and audible reception
June 30 of the 1200 English hour: July 1 at 1241 it`s nothing but a JBA
carrier. Yet much further Asian signals from close to the same azimuth as
Anchor Point continue to be heard, e.g. Pet/Kam, Japan, Taiwan with YFR 11535.
Something else strange is going on at KNLS affecting wide reception variations
here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Lots of analog TVDX all evening, UT July 1:
0156 on 2, from NNW, black-ish screen with credit roll; audio modulation is
quite low when almost-fully-quieted. Maybe it`s just the program. 20 kHz CCI
(many narrow bars) meaning this one is offset plus or minus
0205 on 2, drama, Global bug LR, plus/minus offset, maybe same as above. Must
be CICT Calgary AB, 2+, not CHBC Kelowna BC, 2-zero, which is also above 1400
miles, rarely DXed from here in years past
0208 on 3, soccer. Later found CBC is the net with this. CBCP3 or CBKT7 in
southern Sask.
0257 on 4, from NW, Nissan and Walmart ads, soccer in English. Probably CBKT1,
Regina.
0302 on 6, 10 kHz CCI, one with drama and CHAT-TV text bug LR, clearly
readable. Medicine Hat AB, one of the great callsigns. Took a few shots.
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/TV6.pdf shows it as I, for independent? Or City TV?
Wish each page had a key to the abbrs.
0307 on 3, CITY TV promo; I thought but don`t find any listed. So easy to
confuse with CTV in poor reception.
0316 on 4, still soccer in English // 3, CBCs as above
0356 on 3, soccer, FIFA Women`s World Cup, seems England and/or Canada
involved, English-accented commentary. Cannot see any network bug even when
good video fades in; but at 0359 closing as CBC. Hoped for local ID but none
caught, 0400 into `The National` newscast with Peter Mansbridge, top story
being Royal Visit
0415 on 5, car ad, 0417 CBC news // 3. Too many CBCs on 5 in MB, SK, AB to
unravel
0422 on 3, French audio finally heard, CBWFT Winnipeg being first choice but
seemed further west, maybe one in Saskatchewan or Alberta
0428 on 3, promo or ad in English mentions Saskatchewan. There are two CBC
stations there and one CTV.
0428 on 4, Lloyd Robertson anchor is wrapping up `The National` after a
semihour, and it is NOT // `The National` on 3 with Peter Mansbridge, which
continues! Originating from different centres? No, Googling later, we find that
Robertson used to be on CBC but is now on CTV, National news, but not THE
National, and is about to retire. Must be CKYB-TV as below.
0429 on 2, local sports mentions dodgeball.com and Global bug; 0430 into
`Whatever Happened To?` show about `Family Matters`; 0437 break for Global
Winnipeg local news promo. Therefore CKND-TV-2 Minnedosa MB
0430 on 4, CTV news starts, single YL anchor, imagine that! No co-anchor to
play off, happy-talk with. She just reads the news with a distinctive accent.
About flooding in ND, Brandon MB. 0438 ``CTV news`` definitely, but not
national, about Manitoba. 0447 ad for FM station `FAB 94.3``, i.e. CHIQ in
Winnipeg, apparently no longer ``The Curve`` as in FM Atlas XXI. This 4 is
CKYB-TV in Brandon, satellite of CKY-7 Wpg, or is this newscast really
originating from Brandon?
This encourages me to start tuning FM too:
0447 on 92.7, easy-listening music, likely CBWS, CBCR2, Brandon MB
0447 on 90.3, classical; FM Atlas XXI has zero stations on 90.3 in MB or ND,
let alone anything matching format in the area
I also get some FM from North Dakota: see U S A
0449 on 4, UR large ``SKYWATCH``, weather from CTV Winnipeg; CKYB
0531 on 4, `Daily Show` with Bill Kristol guest as seen two hours earlier on
Comedy Central cable. Darn Canadians, get to see it free on CTV! Running a bit
overtime; offset plus/minus. Still CKYB, I suppose, which is offset +
0533 on 89.5, classical. I have to side tune to 89.45 due to 89.7 local. Maybe
KPPR in Williston ND; no MBs on 89.5. Then MUF goes below FM
0543 on 2, glimpse of graphic including CHAT 810 --- not sure what that`s about
as there is no CHAT radio on 810 or any AM frequency
0544 on 6, algo from NW
0550 on 3, from NW, YL stand-up comedian, CBC bug
0558, Es still showing, best on channels 4 and 6, gone by 0630 quit
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake July 1:
11500, very poor at 1150; no others above or below during degraded propagation;
nothing but 3 x Cuba on 15 MHz, 17 MHz dead. At 1225, 11500 is still the only
FD audible, poor. At 1244 poor with flutter. Yet the usual CNR1 jammers still
manage to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, July 1 at 1136, N1NR in Pennsylvania with his usual
counter-revolutionary rants, expecting to be overheard dentro-Cuba, in contact
with another gusano in Miami, N4RU(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9955, July 1 at 1149 wall-of-noise jamming blox WRMI, but no
such jamming on 9965 where R. Rep?blica ought to be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 17690, RFI Spanish via GUIANA FRENCH at 1400-1430, June 30 was
music-fill instead, due to strike? But July 1 at quick 1425 check, it`s back in
Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA [and non]. 7125, July 1 at 0658 French talk poor in noise level, 0705
music. NO other broadcast signals audible up to Cuban jamming on 7405; just LSB
hams below 7300. The early midsummer sun must have sucked up all the other
signals from Eurafroasia. Mauritania at least should have been audible on 7245
but apparently not on today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6120, July 1 at 1202, RJNHKW via CANADA, sufficient but noisy
over all-day path at midsummer, news about 15% power savings required in much
of the country to avoid blackouts, and ``some local governments are instituting
DST``! That should be a big mess if not all-or-none, some parts of Japan on
UT+10? What about train, broadcast schedules? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. 9355, VG July 1 until 1158* enjoyed a bit of nice music I could
not place. Listed as RFA Lao via SAIPAN 11-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Follow-ups to my TVDX in yesterday`s report:
I added a new tip to my site today. In case you haven't seen it, Televisa
independents and Galavisi?n/Local stations are running some programs from the
various Televisa networks. As for XELN-4, I've seen XEW and XHGC programs there
lately (with network logos upper right), in addition to Galavisi?n and local
programs.
Glenn, I'm enjoying your DX reports on tvfmdx. That is an "H" on the Azteca
newscast. I've attached a photo from XHHSS-4 last week with "Hechos." [As seen
on XHAQ-5 Mexicali with Azteca Trece, a dot in the middle of the H instead of a
bar] (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA, Mexico TV DX Tips
http://www.tvdxtips.com June 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9720, July 1 at 1145, ``This is Radio Free Europe, Radio
Liberty, Praha`` and beep, loop repeating. I was about to time how many times
per minute when at 1136:20 cut back to M&W from RNW with discussion in
Indonesian. Another foulup to the relay via IBB SAIPAN, but at least the
modulation was OK today.
9795, July 1 at 1147 found to be // 9720 but about two sesquiseconds behind it,
ID in passing as Radio Holanda. This one is via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. I`ll
always wonder whether this too had defaulted to Praha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 6160, July 1 at 0703, both CBC stations with news //
except for awful echo, CKZN in the east and CKZU in the west. At 0705 sounded
like a R. Australia relay had started on the stronger one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, July 1 at 0659 RNZI Bellbird IS, 0703 news in progress.
Fair signal I am rarely awake to hear sign-on, but it`s some two hours after
sunset in wintry NZ, so easily propagable, better now then when reopening at
1300, two hours after daylight at this end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU, July 1 at 1235 UT, weekly Friday commentary by Frosty
Troy of the Oklahoma Observer, lamenting that OETA has to cancel the weekday
unbiased `Oklahoma News Report`, as the Republicans now controlling state
government have hit OETA with a 9% cut vs only 5% for other state agencies;
they can`t stand the objective truth being reported about what they are doing
to destroy government. The final ONR airs tonight July 1, but to come back as a
weekly on July 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. 11850, July 1 at 0650 Luso Portuguese with a talk about that
language, 0653 song; 0659 RDPI satellite and internet parameters, 0700 3+1
timesignal with the final one shorter rather than longer, news theme. Fair
signal. RDPI LIVES! on analog SW via this single transmission from Sines,
0645-0800 M-F, 250 kW, 55 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7340, July 1 at 1241 open carrier; 1156 intermittent tones, 1200
much weaker with M&W opening in Japanese. It`s VOR, 250 kW, 240 degrees from
Pet/Kam, opposite being 60 sorta USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15590, July 1 at 1222, VOA Spanish is poorly audible // 9885, a
Greenville transmitter back on air after yesterday`s absence (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, July 1 at 1248, WWCR has built up from JBA a semihour earlier
to S9+15, not yet super-strong, but nevertheless the matching scratchy
modulation-spike spur field is audible 15630-15675 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. During Canadian analog sporadic-E TV DX opening from prairie
provinces, UT July 1, I also get:
0448 on 88.5, rock, Es fades so not OK; NarcAnon PSA; fades out by 0459 ID
time, but 0503 back in with NPR news // KOSU. 0506 end of news, no
announcement, back to rock music. Very likely KEYA, Belcourt ND, res station,
V. of the Turtle Mountains near the MB border in N central ND, which is an NPR
affiliate. I was all set to compare to webstream via
http://keya.utma.com/885/psched.html except there isn`t any. Program in
progress on grid is `Night Owl`s Nest`.
0451 on 94.9, ``94-9 The Classic Rock Zoo`` spoken ID, which Googles directly
to KTZU-FM Velva ND per radio-locator.com. Velva is just down the swollen Mouse
River from Minot. I guess the site is on high ground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1571 monitoring: confirmed on new station WTWW,
Thursday June 30 at 2100 on 9479, excellent signal here as always. I hope
elsewhere too, tho Harry Brooks in England says he was not hearing it, checked
after 2130. Is Russia also on 9480, or not?
5051, UT Friday July 1 after 0331, fair signal for WOR from WWRB, and a het
from something on 5050 which WWRB would otherwise override. 5050 possibly
Brazilian if on, no other broadcaster likely to propagate at this hour, or
maybe ute.
Further airings: on WRMI 9955: Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730; Sunday 0800, 1530,
1730. NEW on WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755. On WBCQ: UT Monday 0300 on
5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13359, July 1 at 1300, something new and very strange! A station
with professional production, at least two announcers talking, is being
VFO-jammed ? het of less than 1 kHz varies back and forth as another
transmitter (or two, I think) sweep across 13359. I strain to identify language
of the target. The intonation first sounds Burmese, but at one point I think I
hear an `imnida` which is nothing but Korean. Unfortunately the poor signal
gets weaker and weaker vs the jamming, but at 1319 I can detect some music has
started; by 1329 both it and the jamming are gone or faded out. I urge others
to check this out. If it keep up, should get it again here on better
propagation days.
I compute harmonic/fundamental possibilities: 6679.5? 3339.75? Unlikely, but:
4453 x 3 = 13359 and there is a longstanding Korean radio war on nominal 4450!
However, that`s not involving VFO jamming, AFAIK. The S Korean 4450v
transmitter is apparently putting out this harmonic (maybe deliberately) and is
thus being jammed deliberately.
At the outset 1300 there seemed to be some SSB on the hi side, i.e. 13362 AFN
Guam which sometimes runs late on this frequency, per Ron Howard, instead of
switching to 5765 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13920, July 1 at 0645 open carrier S8, brief tone, thought it
might turn into Firedrake, but then fax noises, probably the Australian (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:53:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Hector \(Luigi\) Perez" <capecua...@yahoo.com>
To: Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Question on Grundig Radio
Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
On Father;s Day, I got myself an Eton (Grundig) Solarlink FR360. Said radio,
can be operated on an AC/DC? wall power supply. I wonder if anybody could tell
me if the center pin on the connector to be used is positive or negative. I
will be using a generic Radio Shack power supply.
Best 73s to all
Luigi
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:45:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <brian384...@aol.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] June 30-July 1 Logs
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** BRAZIL. 4878.41, Rdif Roraima, 0403-0410*, July 1, local ballads.
Portuguese announcements. Sign off with National Anthem. Weak.
Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ERITREA. 7174.99, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, *0256-
0310, July 1, sign on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0300. Some Horn of
Africa music. Good. Strong. Heard tonight on two 9 MHz frequencies:
// 9710.03 - poor to fair. // 9830.03 - fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** KURDISTAN [non]. via Ukraine, 11530, Voice of Mesopotamia,
*0400-0425, July 1, sign on with National Anthem followed by
indigenous vocals. Kurdish instrumental music. Kurdish talk. Weak.
Poor in noisy conditions. Must use ECSS-USB to avoid QRM from
WEWN spur on approximately 11529. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2225-2255*, June 30, local pop
music. Vernacular talk. Qur`an at 2254. Abruptly pulled plug during
Qur`an. Fair. Irregular. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, *0500-0510, July 1, sign on with
National Anthem. Short flute IS at 0502 and talk in unidentified
language. Qur`an at 0504. Poor. Weak under a presumed Ethiopia
on 9705. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.54, MAC , 2355-0010, June 30-
July 1, IDs. Ultraman Show with Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers.
Spiderman cartoon theme song. Theme music from Get Smart and
Mission Impossible tv shows. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.79, Radio Free Mars, 0310-0331*,
July 1, IDs. Elton John music. Fake news headlines. Good. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6940 USB, XFM, 0345-0355, July 1,
IDs. Music by Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters and others. Good.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6944.84, Radio Ronin Shortwave,
0114-0119*, July 1, special 4th of July broadcast with patriotic music.
IDs. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** U.S.A. 11511, 11529, WEWN Spurs, 0400-0440, July 1, strong
spurs from 11520. Also heard weaker spurs on 11502 and 11538.
Note 9 MHz separation between each frequency. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:16:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com>
To: Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, BCL NEWS
<bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard
Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Marie Lamb
<mal...@cumbredx.net>, Maryann Kehoe <atl...@webtv.net>, Prime
Time
Shortwave <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH
<s...@mailman.qth.net>
Cc: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Allen Graham
<agra...@hcjb.org.ec>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
Message-ID: <1309565789.68837.yahoomai...@web30705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
?>>>
CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba-RHC?? 13760? 2305 GMT? Spanish? 333? July 1? YL and OM
with comments.??? Mackenzie-CA..
CUBA?? Radio Nacional Venezuela Relay-RNV?? 13680? 2314 GMT? Spanish? 444? July
1? OM with comments and some OMs singing. OM with RNV ID 2315 GMT? and an OM
with RHC ID.??? Mackenzie-CA..?
CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba-RHC?? 13670? 2320 GMT? Spanish? 444? July 1? OM with
comments plus OMs singing with Bongo music.??? MacKenzie-CA..
INDIA?? All India Radio-AIR?? 13605? 2329 GMT? English? 444? July 1? YL with
AIR
ID.? OM singing in arabic. OM interviewing an OM 2330 GMT.??? Mackenzie-CA..
JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 13650? 2326 GMT? Thai? 333? July 1? YL and OM with
comments.??? Mackenzie-CA..
MARIANAS, North??? Radio Free Asia-RFA?? 13740? 2312 GMT? Chinese? 323? July 1?
YL and OM with comments.??? Mackenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Tennessee?? WWCR-3?? 13845? 2302 GMT? English? 444? July 1? OM
with comments on Family Feasts for Jesus.??? Mackenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Tennessee??? WTWN?? 12.100?? 2336 GMT? Portuguese? 444? July 1?
OM with comments.? MacKenzie-CA..??
>>>>>>
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
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